UNIVERSITY OF SANTO
TOMAS
COLLEGE OF FINE
ARTS AND DESIGN
CFAD Students with
Family problems or broken families
And How it affects their Studies.
Submitted in Partial Fulfilment
of the requirements for
Math Statistics (600)
Submitted by: Submitted to:
Cruz, Ivy Clarice M. Professor Crisencio M. Paner, MSC
Que, Jhoanne Mariel B.
Soriano, Joshua P.
March 2013
Chapter 1:
INTRODUCTION
i.
Background
of the Study
Family is defined as the basic unit of society. It is
composed of a Father, a Mother and children. Single parenting or broken family
is a very important social issue that can have significant effects on a child’s
academic performance.
The problem on broken families keeps on
growing. When separation just happened, the affected parties that we consider
are the adults or those who have separated. This is because they are the
primary people involved in it. But when we try to look at it, and in the long
run, the impact of separation can be seen on the children of those who have
separated and can cause physical or mental problems as they grow and can hinder
their academic performance which affect their future as a result.
Children who are raised in a single family home are at risk
of not reaching their full potential. They lack the presence of their first
role models who are their parents and they lack the original mother/father
figure. Most learning a child occurs at home and if neither parent is present
at the developing stage of the child then there will be something wrong. Some parents may think that
separation or divorce is the answer on a troubled marriage and they forget the
fact the children will be hit hard and will suffer through mental instability. This
might be also the case on single parents and children born out of wed lock.
The College of
Fine Arts and Design is a rather unusual college as well as a course than any others.
It deals more with the visual aspect and a creative mind is needed. Inspiration
and creativity are somewhat needed in the process of making artworks and it can
be achieved through nature, experiences and etc. The works of the students
describe who they are as a person.
ii.
Objectives
of the Study
To better understand the purpose
of this research, general and specific objectives of the study will be
presented.
A.
General Objectives
- To
determine the importance of family for college students.
- To determine the common family problems
faced by UST-CFAD students.
A.
Specific Objectives
-
To
determine what characteristics are being developed by CFAD students having
family problems or broken families.
-
To
discuss how each problem affects CFAD students.
-
To
discuss whether if these problems could help CFAD students for self- development
or it will just be a distraction in their studies.
-
To
determine the ways or solutions on how they will conquer their problems.
iii.
Significance
of the Study
A.
To
Students
- For
other students to understand the situations of their fellow students who belong
to a broken family
B.
To Parents
-
For parents to understand the importance of their child’s growth depending on
his/her relationship with his/her partner
C.
To Professors
-
For professors to understand the obstacle students belonging to a broken family
D.
To Future Researchers
-
For future researchers to have a reference on the CFAD community who belongs to
a broken family
IV. Delimitation of the Study
The scope of the study is to know the
common family problems CFAD students are dealing with.
The study limited itself to the
students of University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts and Design students
from first to fourth year. Moreover, the study focus on how family problems
affect the studies of CFAD Students, and how their artworks being affected by
their problems.
Chapter
2: Related Literature
In research, related studies and literatures play a very important role
on background analysis. It serves as guidance, reference, and direction on how
to handle the current research. As mentioned earlier, the subject of this
research is how broken families affect CFAD students and how it affects their
studies.
There are slim to none articles on our
topic are found since our topic is only limited to CFAD students but a lot of
articles are helpful and is still related to on how broken families affects a
child’s growth and education. The information we accumulated were mostly from
reviews of previous journals, news articles and blog posts all about how broken
families and their effects on a child’s growth and education.
Problems and Effects
A.
Parents
According to an online article, Broken families have its
causes and effects. It usually affects not only the couple, but also their
children. There are many ways for a family to be broken. Going through a divorce is a very difficult
situation to be in; usually their children are the ones who always suffer. An
argument of the parents is one of the basic causes of broken families. Money is
mostly the cause of the basic cause of a couples arguments. Too much money in a
person's mind can cause greediness; this will let the person forget about love
towards its partner. Another one is unfaithfulness; in a marriage, the couple
must be faithful toward his/her partner. In this situation either the husband
or wife has an affair with other persons that will eventually lead to being
unfaithful to their partner. Loss of trust is another factor. Whenever couple
losses trust to each other they end up in divorce. Trust is an important factor
in a marriage, if a person losses trust to his/her partner, the person either
ends up getting a divorce or he/she chooses to have an affair, first then ends
up in divorce. Inability to manage or resolve a conflict is also one of the
causes, in this situation both the husband and the wife fight about something
but is unable to resolve it. This makes the couple thick that they are
incompatible in many ways and how much they try to resolve their
incompatibility nothing will happen because they will both end up fighting
again
B. Children
According to an article, of the many
potential hazards in family relationships, Hurlock lists six hazards that are
most common and far reaching in their effects.
Separation from Mother
If for some reason
the mother is separated, a stable and satisfactory mother substitute must be
provided for babies. Otherwise babies who are separated from their mothers
develop feelings of insecurity which might become the cause for maladjustments
later in future.
Failure to Develop Attachment Behavior
Failure to
establish attachment behavior in babyhood leads to feelings of insecurity. In
addition, babies with such failure do not experience the pleasures that come
from close, personal relationships. This handicaps them in establishing
friendships as they grow older.
Deterioration in Family Relationships
Family conflicts
or a misunderstanding that occur in the second year of life of the child is
psychologically hazardous because babies can understand the member's changed
attitudes towards her. As a result they may feel unloved and rejected -
feelings which lead to resentment and insecurity.
Over-Protective Child Upbringing
Babies who are
over protected and prevented from doing what they are capable of doing become
over dependent and afraid to do what other babies of their ages do. This might
lead to abnormal fear of members outside and excessive shyness in the presence
of strangers.
Inconsistent Training
Parents' feelings
of inadequacy in the prenatal role and/or inconsistent child training methods
due to permissive method of child rearing provide poor guidelines for babies.
This slows down their learning to behave in approved ways.
Child Abuse
When parents are
unhappy in their parental roles or when a frictional relationship exists
between them, some babies become the target of anger and excitement. The babies
are either neglected or abused. Child abuse is more common in the second year
of life because babies become negativistic and troublesome to the parents
triggering the outlet of anger, resentment and other unpleasant emotions. This
might lead to unhealthy parent-child relationships.
Neither do all
babies have reason to be unhappy nor are babies who have one or more reasons
for unhappiness always unhappy. However, family relationships in babyhood is
regarded as the most influential factor in personality development because it
is the time when the foundations for future habits, attitudes and behavior are
laid.
According to an online article by Marky
Chavez, some effects on a broken family to children are as follows: A broken home can make a child insecure, The
insecurities, self-doubt and lack of confidence in a child can eventually make
him uninterested in school, Sometimes a child’s reaction on his parents’
announcement of a divorce is not visible. He keeps to himself the pain, shock
and anger he feels. This in turn makes him vulnerable to anger, depression,
revenge, alcohol, crimes, drugs and so on. He makes these as his outlets. Sometimes the traumatic effect of a
divorce is just too much for a child to handle that he may even lost interest
in life itself.
Chapter 3:
Methodology
I. Analysis
The most
technical segment of the research could be found in this chapter. Here,
methodologies and procedures would be specified on the approaches of collecting
and gathering data divided into two categories which are Qualitative and
Quantitative Analysis. From these approaches, historical, comparative and
descriptive information would be determined to narrow the methodology to more
specific topics.
In the case of determining the objectives
of the study (as seen on Chapter 1), Comparative analysis would better suit
this research than the historical and descriptive analysis. Although with
finding out the affects of broken
families to CFAD students would also require descriptive analysis.
All types of analysis are essential within a research. However,
for this particular investigation, They cannot perform with equal importance.
One approach would serve as the primary source of data while others would serve
as the source of supporting data. The use of the qualitative and quantitative
comparative analysis for this study would further be discussed below.
A.
Qualitative Comparative Analysis:
For the
Qualitative Comparative Analysis, researchers must be able to gather sufficient
and appropriate date supplied by substantial proofs and evidences. These should
first come from intensive and careful deliberation of the present situation of
the topic to which both its history and current condition would be studied and
observe to generate acceptable inferences prior the research. This will provide
guidance to researchers in the process of investigation as well as with
conduction conclusions for the study.
Contrary to
the Quantitative Analysis, the Qualitative Analysis focuses on the reasoning
and interpretations of people, events or occurrences instead of accurate
calculations of results. More often than not, this approach answers the things
which cannot be answered by its counterpart by going beyond the initial outputs
and by tapping on more personal barriers.
To further
understand the effects of broken families on CFAD students would be resolved
through this approach.
ii.
Methodology
A. Survey
Broken
families are almost everywhere in the world. Even though divorce is not in the
Philippines, there are separated husband and wife here. There are many affects
on it on their child academically, mentally and physically. But this study
focuses on the affects of broken families on CFAD students in particular. The
researchers would strive to conduct this study in discovering the affects of
broken families to CFAD students. To accomplish this on a systematic
observation, a survey will be conducted.
A survey is a
method for collecting information about items in a population. It is a formal
or official examination of the particulars of something, made in order to
ascertain a condition, character, etc. in this case, the struggles of having a
broken families to CFAD students.
B. Scope
It is only limited to the students of
the College of Fine Arts and Design from 1st year to 4th
year.
C. Respondents
Due to the
limited time given to conduct this study, the researchers have decided to only
include 50 respondents in the survey. This number will be divided to the four
sectors of the College of Fine Arts and Design – Painting, Industrial Design,
Interior Design and Advertising Arts yet still follows the process of random
sampling. The researchers are aware of the possibility of poorly collected data
due to small number of the respondents. The ideal percentage of respondents on
such survey are 70% of the specified population. Unfortunately, due to time
constraints and only this study only have a small percent of the population
will be part of the study due to insufficient time.
D. Survey
Sheet
UNIVERSITY
OF SANTO TOMAS
COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN
SURVEY QUESTIONS I Statistics (600A) Instructions: Kind fill in
and tick/check the blank next to your answer or write down your answer on the
space provided.
Name
(Optional) :________________________________________________________________
Birthday:____________________
Age:_____ Contact
#:_______________ Gender: __M __F
Address:________________________________________________________________________
1. With whom you are living with?
___Father ___ Mother ___Guardian
___Father ___ Mother ___Guardian
___Others:
______________
2. Since when you experienced having a broken family?
____y/o
3. How many siblings
do you have?
___ Only Child ___ 2/Two ___ 3 and above
___ Only Child ___ 2/Two ___ 3 and above
4. How many friends
do you have?
___ 1-3 friends
___ 1-3 friends
___4-7 friends
___8 and above
5. What is the
status of your parent’s relationship?
__In Good Terms __Not on speaking terms
__ Widowed __Others
_____________
6. Does your parents still interact with each
other?
__Yes __ No
7. Was there any instances that you decided to live on your own?
___ Yes ___No
__Yes __ No
7. Was there any instances that you decided to live on your own?
___ Yes ___No
8. Is there any circumstances that you personally
approach your parents and ask what happened to their relationship?
___Yes ___No
9. What are you idea/s why their relationship
does not work?
___Financial problem ___ 3rd party ___Problem with relatives
___Others (pls. specify) ___________________________________
___Financial problem ___ 3rd party ___Problem with relatives
___Others (pls. specify) ___________________________________
10. In your own opinion, whom do you consider the reason why a broken family arises? Is it because of:
___ a nagger
wife ( or )
___a polygamous
husband?
11. Does it affect you in terms of academics?
11. Does it affect you in terms of academics?
__Yes __No
How?_______________________________________________________________________________________
12. Do you have any communication with your
Mom/ Dad (Parents)?
___Yes ___No
13. If Yes, with
whom?
___Mom ___Dad ___Both
___Mom ___Dad ___Both
___None (if none proceed to number 15)
14. If yes, do they
support you?
___In financial aspects ___In emotional aspects ___None
___In financial aspects ___In emotional aspects ___None
15. Do you believe that identity crisis may occur if you belong to a broken family?
___Yes (why?)_____________________________________________________________________
___No (why not?)__________________________________________________________________
Chapter 4
I.
Presentation
of Data
After the collection of
data and information, the presentation of results from the survey will mostly
occupy this chapter. This is the section of the research which formulation of
conclusions begin.
Survey:
Personal
Information of Students
To start off the
deliberation of survey results, the personal information of respondents will be
the first to be presented. This includes general data such as gender and age.
Number of
Respondents:
As mentioned, in the
previous chapter, the methodology, 22 students from the College of Fine Arts
and Design were selected to take the survey regarding our said topic.
TOTAL Number
of Respondents:
23
MALE Survey
Respondents
5
FEMALE Survey
Respondents
18
Age of
Respondents
The age range of respondents is to be
shown in an ordered stem-plot format below
Solving the Mean:
To
find the mean, add the __ ages and divide by 100 (n)
Mean = 16+16(ages)…+21+21
23
=
398
23
= 17.30
*Therefore,
the Mean is 17.30
Solving the
Median
To find the median, write the ages in
order and find the middle number. To order the ages, use the ordered
stem-and-leaf plot.
15, 16, 16, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 18,
18, 18, 18, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 20, 20, 21
*Therefore, the median of the age is
18
Solving the
Mode:
To Find the Mode, use the ordered stem
and leaf plot. The age with the most number of frequencies is determined as the
Mode of the data.
Age Frequency
15 1
16 2
17 5
18 4
19 8
= MODE
20 2
21 1
TOTAL:
23
7 of the survey respondents are from the age of 19,
the most number of frequency among the data, thus making 19 the mode.
Whom are you living with?
Since when did you experience having a
broken family?
How many siblings do you have?
What is the status of your parents
relationships?
Do
your parents still interact with each other?
Do you have any
communication with your mom/dad?
Chapter 5: Conclusion
After an extensive
research and surveys answered by CFAD Students, most of them lives with their
mothers. 22% percent of the respondents started experiencing having a broken
family at the age of 2 and 5 years old. However, a large majority of their
parents are still in good terms and still interacts with each other. 52% of the
respondents believe that being in a broken family does not affect their
academics and 70% of them still have communication with their estranged parent
and that they still fully support their child in whatever aspect. 57% of the
respondents also believe that identity crisis may not occur if you belong to a
broken family.
